Secret Pyramid: A Vanishing Touch
Secret Pyramid: A Vanishing Touch
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Secret Pyramid
Label: Ba Da Bing
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 600197020210
Genre: Rock
While possibly not the first ambient record to be inspired by J Dilla's Donuts, Secret Pyramid's A Vanishing Touch is in rarified company. The two seem antithetical-with Donuts a now classic collection of short beats compiled together and A Vanishing Touch being a forty-minute suite consisting of fourteen pieces. However, like any genre, ambient music has a lot more going on beneath the surface than might be initially gleaned.From the start, Amir Abbey dropped his usual songwriting process of long contemplation and careful sculpting. "I let the pieces live and breathe, and I spent a lot less time tweaking and editing. Doing this brought an energy and mystery to the music that was missing from what I've made in the past." This allowed the record to come together quickly", with Abbey working on it nightly after his work day had ended. "Each album is a snapshot of where I am at that point in time. With this album, I have been thinking about shifting memory, how a moment in time does not need to be thought of as endless, but rather part of a cycle. Every beginning is as important and salient as the ending that follows."Working at home, as he always has, Abbey embeds synths, tape loops and processing, horns, ondes martenot, guitar, bass, and organ within the multi-tiered composition of A Vanishing Touch. Sounds morph, bleed, fade, and permeate with moments where a listener is able to make out what is being played at that moment. "I've intentionally blurred some of the instrumentation and it can't be easily made out, so even if you pay attention to the sound, there's something ephemeral about it." Each measure feels deep, singular, mysterious, and unconfined.It's a new approach to ambience-the magic of the moment as a moment, not stretched beyond it's point in time. "A Vanishing Touch is about impermanence and the beauty that can result from it."
Tracks:
1.1 Whim
1.2 Slow Softly
1.3 Broken Wing
1.4 Kiss the Hold
1.5 So So
1.6 Out of the Sky Into the Ground
1.7 Valerian
1.8 Bloom Nightly
1.9 One Twelve (Feat. Ilyas Ahmed)
1.10 Blush
1.11 Hands to
1.12 First Rotation
1.13 Turning Into Air
1.14 Cradle
